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Welcome to the archives of Better Cities & Towns, a publication founded by Robert Steuteville as New Urban News in 1996. This archive holds two decades of the best news and analysis on compact, mixed-use growth and development, from 1996 to 2015.
A $100 million fund that will invest in urban mixed-income housing developments was announced in late April by its two partners — Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group and L&M Development Partners. The fund, GSLM Capital Partners LLC, expects to...
Table 1 title: Housing price change for selected Zip Code areas
Table 2 title: Change in housing prices
New Urban News has reported for some time, based on observations and published stories, that urban neighborhoods have performed better than...
Edited by Tigran HaasRizzoli, 2008, 349 pp., $50 hardcover
Doug Farr’s book Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature, published by Wiley and reviewed in the Dec. 2007 New Urban News, went into a second printing after only six weeks on the market. Farr has begun a national series of training seminars...
Most of the communities along the Gulf Coast in Mississippi are demanding that “Mississippi Cottages” — small, vernacular dwellings designed by new urbanists for Hurricane Katrina survivors — be hauled away by next spring.
Nearly 2,400 cottages...
The National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education and the Maryland Department of Transportation are establishing a joint Transportation Policy Research Group at the University of Maryland in College Park. Its purposes include identifying...
Ann Daigle is coordinating work on a plan to have the Creative Film Arts Program of the University of Southern Mississippi occupy the university’s historic Gulf Coast campus in Long Beach. Hurricane Katrina destroyed some campus buildings in 2005,...
The nation’s largest nonprofit builder — known for a barebones approach — is moving forward with an ambitious and diverse neighborhood.What will apparently be the first complete new urban neighborhood developed by Habitat for Humanity was designed...
Edited by Robert Adam and Matthew HardyTradition Today takes readers, at a quick pace, over a lot of interesting terrain, most of it off the Modern beaten path. It’s a refreshing excursion.
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded $59,000 to the University of Miami’s Center for Urban and Community Design to document sustainable building practices and techniques. The Center, directed by Sonia Cháo, hosted a 2.5-day symposium in...
When was the last time you heard of a building being named for an urban planner? That rare event has just occurred in Vancouver, British Columbia, where a 34-story glass tower, to be erected in the Yaletown section of downtown, is being called “The...
Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture, has been appointed to the US Commission of Fine Arts for four years by President George Bush.